Dawn French wants to be buried in Vicar of Dibley costume

Dawn French wants to be buried in her 'Vicar of Dibley' costume.

The 65-year-old star is best known for portraying vicar Geraldine Granger in the BBC One sitcom, and she would love to be laid to rest in "the full vestments" with a full face of makeup, and placed in a gold casket with a Perspex lid so mourners can see her.

She said: "I'd like to be preserved. I’d like to be embalmed, properly - full makeup with lashes."

Dawn - who was married to Sir Lenny Henry from 1984 to 2010 - would like her exes to be at her funeral.

She said: "This is all low key, obviously.

"I would like a sort of a wake behind of previous lovers and concubines."

The 'French and Saunders' star - who is now married to Mark Bignell - is also keen for 'Vicar of Dibley' co-writer Richard Curtis to pen her eulogy, and she would love her best pal Jennifer ­Saunders to read it out.

Speaking on Kathy Burke’s 'Where There’s a Will, There’s a Wake' podcast, she joked: "It would kill her to have to say so many nice things about me."

In March, Dawn admitted she didn’t like “posh” Jennifer when they first met.

She said: "I didn't really like Jen that much at the very beginning because she's quite posh, or I thought she was but she's not really. She had a whole friendship group of way out of my league sort of people, and then I had to share a flat with her.

"But as soon as I got rid of my prejudice about her, which I still have to this day - prejudice against posh people, they have to prove their worth to me - I thought, 'She's actually great.' "